Barazin

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Barazin
Barazin is located in Jordan
Barazin
Barazin
Location in Jordan
Coordinates: 31°47′N 35°52′E / 31.783°N 35.867°E / 31.783; 35.867Coordinates: 31°47′N 35°52′E / 31.783°N 35.867°E / 31.783; 35.867
CountryFlag of Jordan.svg Jordan
GovernorateAmman
Time zoneUTC + 2

Barazin, also spelled Barazayn (Arabic: برازين), is a town in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan.[1]

History[]

Modern Barazin was founded in the 1870s when its lands were granted by the Ottomans to a Beni Sakhr chieftain, Fandi Al Fayez, and his son Sattam, the father of Mithqal Al Fayez, who also became a major landowner in Transjordan.[2] The village began to be cultivated during the family's ownership, before the settlement of Madaba in 1880 by local Christians.[3] Barazin is mentioned as one of nine Bedouin-owned plantation settlements in the Balqa area of Transjordan in 1883 where settlement had been largely confined to the town of Salt during the preceding two centuries.[4] In the beginning of the 20th century, villagers from Lifta near Jerusalem purchased land in Barazin.[5] In 1932, Mithqal offered the Jewish Agency a mortgage of his lands in Barazin in return for a loan.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Maplandia world gazetteer
  2. ^ Fischbach 2011, p. 15.
  3. ^ Abujaber 1999, p. 140.
  4. ^ Rogan 1994, p. 47, note 41.
  5. ^ Fischbach 2011, p. 59.
  6. ^ Alon 2016, p. 121.

Bibliography[]

  • Abujaber, Raouf (1999). "Jaussen's Contribution to the Study of Agricultural Development in Moab and Southern Palestine around 1900". In Chatelard, Géraldine; Tarawneh, Mohammed (eds.). Antonin Jaussen, sciences sociales occidentales et patrimoine arabe. Beirut: Presses de l'Ifpo. pp. 139–144. ISBN 9782351595039.
  • Alon, Yoav (2016). The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithqal al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804796620.
  • Fischbach, Michael R. (2011). State, Society, and Land in Jordan. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-11912-3.
  • Rogan, Eugene L. (1994). "Bringing the State Back: The Limits of Ottoman Rule in Jordan, 1840–1910". In Rogan, Eugene L.; Tell, Tariq (eds.). Village, Steppe and State: The Social Origins of Modern Jordan. London: British Academic Press. p. 47, note 41. ISBN 1-85043-829-3.
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